Dave Bock has released dunce-cap, a collection of capistrano recipes that do useful things like prevent concurrent deployments, dump cap activity to a log file, send notification of deploy events via growl, and other useful features.

Have you ever needed to log attribute changes on a model class? This gem by Abhishek Parolka makes it trivial. It will log field changes and record who made the change if you have a current_user attribute in your controller.

Railroad generates class diagrams from your ruby code using AT&T's awesome open source GraphViz tool. It languished for a couple of years, but this fork by Peter Hoeg is breathing new life back into the project, making it Rails 2.3 compatible.

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Updates to last episode's stories on Humanizer and Radiant, Passenger 3, JMeter meets CSRF, Clockwork, Pincaster, and generating config files with ERB on this edition of Ruby5. And Happy Independence Day for our U.S. listeners!